lib dependencies

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:51:25PM -0500, Tom Wilson wrote:
> >Yes.  ncurses 5.2-28 is installed but I guess these drivers just want
> >version 4.
>
> In many cases, making a symbolic link from the later shared library to the
> one required will work along with the --nodeps options.  It's probably a
> better idea to get the source RPM and rebuild it so it picks up the correct
> libraries.

What he said  :)

unfortunately, libncurses5 is not all that backwards compatible, and alot
of stuff just won't run right if it needs 4, but you have 5.  youv'e got
nothing to lose by forcing nodeps.

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